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Kenshi Map, Tech Tree & Races

The complete Kenshi companion — an interactive world map, a research tech-tree planner, and a full race comparison with a best-race picker. No login, no ads.

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Interactive map

The complete Kenshi world map — 304 locations across 9 categories: towns, villages, outposts, ruins, military bases, prisons, slave camps and nests.

Open

News

Kenshi 2 →

Everything we know about the Unreal Engine 5 prequel — release-date status, the ~1,000-year-earlier setting, how it differs from Kenshi, and whether to wait. Sourced and updated.

Planner

Tech tree→

195 researches across 8 branches — trace prerequisites and total the exact Books, Ancient Science Books & AI Cores for any research plan.

Compare

Races→

Compare all 9 playable races across 43 stats and find the best race for your playstyle — bruiser, stealth, farmer, low-upkeep and more.

Locator

Unique recruits→

Where to find all 44 unique recruits (18 free) — filter by race or cost and jump to each spawn location on the map.

Relations

Factions→

The 29 major factions — territory, the race that leads each, and who they're at war with. Click a faction to highlight its rivals.

Guide

Mods →

How to install Kenshi mods from the Steam Workshop & Nexus, how load order works, the FCS editor, and a safe starter set of the best community mods.

Discover

Games like Kenshi →

The best open-world sandbox RPGs to play next — Bellwright, RimWorld, Mount & Blade II and more, with why each scratches the same itch.

Guide

Best base locations →

Where to build — the Greenbeach & Waystation plateaus, Crescent Canyons and more, with the chokepoint, resources and defence that make each one work.

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Locations: 195
Research techs: 9
Playable races: 8
Tech branches: 9
Map categories

Playable races

Compare all 9 →

Kenshi — the complete reference

Kenshi is a free-roaming, squad-based RPG by Lo-Fi Games set on a vast, lawless desert continent. There are no classes and no story rails — you build your own tale across cities, forts, ancient labs and ruins. Pindrop's Kenshi tools cover the three things players reach for most: where everything is, what to research, and which race to play.

The world map

The interactive map pins 304 locations across 9 categories — towns, villages, outposts, ruins, points of interest, military bases, prisons, slave camps and nests — with faction control, biome shading, search and a found-tracking checklist. Search a faction like Shek Kingdom to see every settlement it holds.

Research & technology

Base-building runs on research. The tech-tree planner maps all 195 technologies across 8 branches, shows every prerequisite chain, and totals the exact Books, Ancient Science Books, Engineering Research and AI Cores you need for any set of targets.

Races & recruits

Your race shapes your run. The race comparison ranks all 9 playable races — Greenlander, Scorchlander, Shek, three Hive castes and three Skeleton types — across 43 stats, and recommends the best race for your playstyle. Each race page shows where to find and recruit that people on the map.

More guides & resources

Free, ad-free guides and reference pages for the questions players search most.